Good-bye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer War

Taking his title from a British song that bade farewell to an era, Rayner Kruger describes the background, the arms and armies, the campaigns and personalities of the war in which soldiers from across the British Empire marched to a succession of brave defeats at hands of sharpshooting farmers. These were calamitous blows, struck not only at an immense British Army but -- as the old century passed into the new -- at Victorian prestige, assumptions, and complacency.

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Page 38Only the Transvaal expressed in the voice of Paul Kruger unshakable opposition
to the idea. Rhodes and Kruger were therefore opposed to each other not so
much in practical interest, which can always be compromised, as in passion ...

Page 43I therefore left the old Colony for good. . . .10 The writer, by name Jan Smuts,
migrated to the Transvaal and there presently became Paul Kruger's State
Attorney. He was to be heard of. Having repudiated the Raid, Chamberlain
braced ...

Page 256Though the British did not overtake the Boers retreating from Poplar Grove, panic
did. At a farm called Abraham's Kraal, fifteen miles back, Paul Kruger was joined
by De la Rey who had been riding from Bloemfontein with a thousand police to ...